Once Internet came, downloaded demos on bboards and then happy puppy. Had content for a while although short lived.
If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you’d achieve perfection.
We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.
Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show
That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.
I grew up with mine sweeper, but now with internet there’s triple A minesweeper.
What about roller coaster tycoon?
Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they’d be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
edit
Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
Fuck yeah!
I used to play rodents revenge on my dad’s wori computer all the time
Uhhh excuse me?
Where’s Number Munchers?
…or Oregon Trail?
…or QBasic games like Gorillas?
…and Nibbles (aka Snake)
…and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Neither came as a standard Windows game/app
I had the Internet well before that pinball game existed. Windows 95 wouldn’t even exist for almost a decade when we got Internet. IRC made me the lifelong pirate I am today.
It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.
My dad convinced his work that he needed it. No clue how much it cost. It was 1986
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
Loved the Road Rash demo back then
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit “app” from the “app store” that was full of ads…
I’ve got a Dungeon Master’s guide
I’ve got a twelve sided die
I’ve got Kitty Pryde
And Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me
Yes I do
I do
They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O
If you wanted to put in the time you could finder power ups!
You could at least tell something about it instead of just putting a picture of a new concept without commentary… some people are just ignorant
It was a peaceful life.
before Swifties
I still remember when the prize at the bottom of the cereal box was a CD-ROM for (mostly terrible) computer games
DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST
I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.
That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn’t just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend’s).
That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn’t even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.
It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).
I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.
We thought it could never get better than this
And we were right
